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This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server 2014 product features and tools related to maintaining a database. Note: This course is designed for customers who are interested in learning SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014. It covers the new features in SQL Server 2014, but also the important capabilities across the SQL Server data platform.

Microsoft On DemandMicrosoft Official Courses On-Demand (MOC On-Demand) blend video, text, hands-on labs and knowledge checks to help you build your Microsoft technology skills on your own schedule, at your own pace and in your own place. No need to spend time and money travelling to a classroom location or adhering to classroom hours with a computer and an Internet connection, your Microsoft Official Courses On-Demand come to you, any time.

Microsoft On Demand covers the same objectives as the classroom course by the same name

After you activate your course, you have 3 months to complete it. You can work on your course at any time throughout the 3-month period after you activate the course.

Target AudienceThe primary audience for this course is individuals who administer and maintain SQL Server databases. These individuals perform database administration and maintenance as their primary area of responsibility, or work in environments where databases play a key role in their primary job. The secondary audience for this course is individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL Server databases.

Module 3: Working with Databases and StorageThis module describes how data is stored in databases, how to create databases, how to manage database files, and how to move them. Other tasks related to storage, include managing the tempdb database and using fast storage devices to extend the SQL Server buffer pool cache, are also discussed.Lessons

Introduction to Data Storage with SQL Server

Managing Storage for System Databases

Managing Storage for User Databases

Moving Database Files

Configuring the Buffer Pool Extension

Module 4: Planning and Implementing a Backup StrategyIn this module, you will consider how to create a backup strategy that is aligned with organizational needs, and learn how to perform the backup operations required by that strategy.Lessons

Understanding SQL Server Recovery Models

Planning a Backup Strategy

Backing up Databases and Transaction Logs

Using Backup Options

Ensuring Backup Reliability

Module 5: Restoring SQL Server 2014 DatabasesIn this module, you will see how to restore user and system databases and how to implement point-in-time recovery.Lessons

Understanding the Restore Process

Restoring Databases

Advanced Restore Scenarios

Working with Point-in-Time Recovery

Module 6: Importing and Exporting DataIn this module, you will briefly explore tools and techniques so that you can import and export data to and from SQL Server.Lessons

Introduction to Transferring Data

Importing and Exporting Table Data

Copying or Moving a Database

Module 7: Monitoring SQL Server 2014This module explains how to use three of the most commonly used tools: Activity Monitor, dynamic management views and functions (DMVs and DMFs), and Performance Monitor.Lessons

Introduction to Monitoring SQL Server

Dynamic Management Views and Functions

Performance Monitor

Module 8: Tracing SQL Server ActivityThis module describes how to use SQL Server Profiler and SQL Trace stored procedures to capture information about SQL Server, and how to use that information to troubleshoot and optimize SQL Server workloads.Lessons

Tracing SQL Server Workload Activity

Using Traces

Module 9: Managing SQL Server SecurityIn this module, you will be learn about the core concepts on which the SQL Server security architecture is based, and how to manage security at the server and database levels.Lessons

Introduction to SQL Server Security

Managing Server-Level Security

Managing Database-Level Principals

Managing Database Permissions

Module 10: Auditing Data Access and Encrypting DataThis module describes the available options for auditing in SQL Server, how to use and manage the SQL Server audit feature, and how to implement encryption.Lessons

Auditing Data Access in SQL Server

Implementing SQL Server Audit

Implementing SQL Server Audit

Module 11: Performing Ongoing Database MaintenanceThis module describes common database maintenance tasks that a DBA must perform, and demonstrates how to automate these tasks using maintenance plans.Lessons

Ensuring Database Integrity

Maintaining Indexes

Automating Routine Database Maintenance

Module 12: Automating SQL Server 2014 ManagementThis module describes how to use SQL Server Agent to automate jobs, how to configure security contexts for jobs, and how to implement multi-server jobs.Lessons